How To Pick A Table

Mike of I’m Just Here For The Beer explains how to pick a no-limit hold-em table for fairly experienced players.

“To me, “that guy” is one of those players who are all but begging to give me their money. They’re the people who can somehow manage to play AA, KK, AK to negative numbers and don’t know why. Their game is extremely transparant. They bluff far too often in the wrong situations. Said another way, these are the extreme donkeys. If I see them logged on and at a table, if I can get a seat with this player, I do so. Thus, my system is thrown out the door.

When I am at the table with “that guy,” I try to often isolate this player either preflop or post flop. This indicates I’m pretty much playing against this player and this player alone. Initially, this may prove effective and other players will get out of your way… Until they figure out what you’re doing. Most likely by then, “that guy” has handed you most of his money and has run scared.”

If you’re a beginner, though, he does have some great notes on how not to be “that guy”.